{"id":5604,"date":"2015-09-12T11:18:15","date_gmt":"2015-09-12T17:18:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/?p=5604"},"modified":"2015-09-12T11:18:15","modified_gmt":"2015-09-12T17:18:15","slug":"porcupines-prove-the-existence-of-multiple-universes-right-here-on-earth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/2015\/09\/12\/porcupines-prove-the-existence-of-multiple-universes-right-here-on-earth\/","title":{"rendered":"Porcupines Prove the Existence of Multiple Universes, Right Here on Earth"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Approximate Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><div id=\"attachment_5605\" style=\"width: 471px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5605\" class=\" wp-image-5605\" src=\"http:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/2008-08-12_17-23-40_001_wm.jpg\" alt=\"Taken without using zoom.\" width=\"461\" height=\"261\" srcset=\"http:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/2008-08-12_17-23-40_001_wm.jpg 640w, http:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/2008-08-12_17-23-40_001_wm-300x170.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 461px) 100vw, 461px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-5605\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Taken without using zoom.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>OK, so maybe not PROVE, but you really gotta wonder.<\/p>\n<p>During my candidacy for my PhD I took a number of evening classes. One night after one of these classes, I arrived home around 9 p.m. It was already dark and as \u00a0I got out of my car I almost fell over a big (fat &#8211; aren&#8217;t they all?) porcupine wandering right through our yard between the house and garage.<\/p>\n<p>Even though it walked right beside the van, it didn&#8217;t even acknowledge my presence. Since it seemed so unaware of my presence, I decided to follow\u00a0it for a bit. I tried stomping my feet &#8211; nothing &#8211; it didn&#8217;t even speed up; I tried yelling at it &#8211; still nothing. So finally, I just followed and watched it.<\/p>\n<p>Along the way\u00a0it occurred to me &#8211; his &#8216;people&#8217;\u00a0have probably been wandering along that path (that now happens to sit between my house and garage) for <em>hundreds<\/em> of years. Who are <b class=\"moz-txt-star\"><span class=\"moz-txt-tag\">*<\/span>we<span class=\"moz-txt-tag\">*<\/span><\/b> to think we can just plunk down our houses and fences, and expect the world to keep out?<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span data-reactid=\".96.1:4.1:$comment10206800028453128_10206802211827711\/=10.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1.$comment-body.0.$text0\/=1$text0\/=010\">I really think porcupines mostly live in a dimension that is a little shifted from ours &#8211; to them man-made things are slightly out of phase and have a ghost-like appearance. That&#8217;s why they so often ignore us and our stuff. <\/span><\/p>\n<p>Except corn, apparently.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/UGz8jcbJjRw\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<div class='wp_likes' id='wp_likes_post-5604'><a class='like' href=\"javascript:wp_likes.like(5604);\" title='' ><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-likes\/images\/like.png\" alt='' border='0'\/><\/a><span class='text'>Be the first to like.<\/span><\/p>\n<div class='like' ><a href=\"javascript:wp_likes.like(5604);\">Like<\/a><\/div>\n<div class='unlike' ><a href=\"javascript:wp_likes.unlike(5604);\">Unlike<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Approximate Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>OK, so maybe not PROVE, but you really gotta wonder. During my candidacy for my PhD I took a number of evening classes. One night after one of these classes, I arrived home around 9 p.m. It was already dark &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/2015\/09\/12\/porcupines-prove-the-existence-of-multiple-universes-right-here-on-earth\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[14,351],"tags":[110],"class_list":["post-5604","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-nature-animals-urbanrural-life","tag-rural-life-2"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4Hsb6-1so","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":6593,"url":"http:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/2017\/08\/10\/on-grief-and-farming-a-k-a-me-and-my-arrow-pt-3\/","url_meta":{"origin":5604,"position":0},"title":"On Grief And Farming (A.K.A. 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